Boston Red Sox’s “Big Papi” was voted in on his first ballot, but Bonds and Sammy Sosa were shut out. Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz — the designated hitter and first baseman also known as “Big Papi” — has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, his very first year of eligibility. Having…
4.0 student Kenyari Sawyer has been accepted into 48 colleges and received over $600K in scholarships Kenyari Sawyer is truly #BlackGirlMagic. After applying to close to 100 schools, the Albany, Ga. native has been received over $600,000 in college scholarships. Despite being a 4.0 student at Monroe Comprehensive High School, Sawyer actually feared she wasn’t…
Transcribed by: Sydney Henriques-Payne Completion date: January 26, 2022 Gerren Keith Gaynor: [00:00:03] Welcome to Dear Culture, the podcast that gives you news you can trust for the culture. I’m your co-host, Gerren Keith Gaynor, Managing Editor of Politics and Washington Correspondent at theGrio, [00:00:13][10.1] Shana Pinnock: [00:00:13] and I’m your co-host Shana Pinnock, social…
If there is one role everybody knows LisaRaye McCoy from, its Diamond from the movie “The Players Club.” McCoy brought the character to life in 1998, telling the story of a single mother who had to work as a stripper to pay for college. Not only did she have to care for her child, she…
Bridgeport Police finally launching criminal investigation into last month’s death of Smith-Fields after family calls out “accidental” ruling. The Bridgeport Police Department is finally opening a criminal investigation into the death of 23-year-old influencer Lauren Smith-Fields. The probe comes as as result of Monday’s announcement by Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Smith-Fields…
One doesn’t necessarily need to be white in order to be racist, therefore one doesn’t need to be a white woman to be a Karen. If you’re Black in America, there’s a likelihood that you’ve been followed around grocery stores, bodegas, department stores and the like by racists of multiple races because, unfortunately, anti-Blackness is…
Nearly two months after Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was found dead in her apartment after meeting a Bumble date, police launched a criminal investigation into how she died. Bridgeport police announced a criminal investigation the morning of Jan. 25, hours after the chief state medical examiner ruled Smith-Fields’ death an accidental overdose caused…
Avery has served as the chief of the Division of Enforcement and Public Protection at the state attorney general’s office since 2021 President Joe Biden has nominated a diverse group of six lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, his latest picks for the top law enforcement positions. The nominees, announced by the…
OPINION: Nearly two years after the “racial reckoning” in which corporations, universities, foundations and local governments vowed to address diversity, the need for DEI is greater than ever. In 2008, after the election of President Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, we saw a sweeping and alluring focus on the potential reality of a “post-racial”…
A Republican lawmaker wants to advance a resolution dismissing the existence of deep-rooted racism in the military The first month back at the state Capitol has felt frustratingly familiar for Black lawmakers in Tennessee’s majority-white Legislature. First, lawmakers passed a new congressional map scattering Nashville’s Black voters across multiple districts. Now, a Republican lawmaker wants…
